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Ntarama Genocide Memorial Centre ( rw, Urwibutso rwa jenoside rwa Ntarama, french: Mémorial du génocide à Ntarama) is one of six genocide museums in
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. Five thousand people were killed here in the Catholic church.


Location

Ntarama is located in
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. It is an hour's drive south of
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, the national
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and the largest city in the country.Remembering Rwanda's genocide
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and
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are just to the south and
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and
Nyamata Nyamata is a town in the Bugesera District, southeastern Rwanda. Nyamata literally means "place of milk" from the two Kinyarwanda words "nya-" (of) and "amata" (milk). It is the location of Nyamata Genocide Memorial, commemorating the Rwandan geno ...
.
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is close.Ntarama
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Overview

Ntarama's former Catholic church is now a memorial site. Five thousand people were massacred there on 15 April 1994 during the
Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...
. This memorial centre is one of six major centres in Rwanda that commemorate the Rwandan genocide. The others are the Murambi Memorial Centre, the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre and others at Nyamata, Bisesero, and Nyarubuye.Sites mémoriaux du génocide : Nyamata, Murambi, Bisesero et Gisozi
UNESCO, Retrieved 2 March 2015


See also

* List of massacres in Rwanda


References


External links


Genocide Archive of Rwanda
Rwandan genocide museums Museums in Rwanda Rwandan genocide Museums established in 2004 2004 establishments in Rwanda Eastern Province, Rwanda {{Rwanda-struct-stub